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    Our new home on wheels ... MAN 16.232 Expedition Truck Build

    Hi Iain, thanks for the compliments! The pressure regulators are working alone. We have two pressure regulators because we have installed two charging pumps that are working also alone. If one fail we can use the other pump to charge the water tanks. To summarise, each pump have his dedicated...
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    Our new home on wheels ... MAN 16.232 Expedition Truck Build

    Solar power On top of the roof we have installed six solar panels in order to obtain a lot of free energy. We have divided the installation in two stacks, one composed by four panels and the other by two. The truck is high so we have maintained the installation as lower as possible We use...
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    Our new home on wheels ... MAN 16.232 Expedition Truck Build

    Thanks Ripperj we are trying to do our best. In the photos is not represented the electrical system that is a little bit less clean ;-)
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    Our new home on wheels ... MAN 16.232 Expedition Truck Build

    Thanks Iain we also are experiencing the same ;-)
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    Our new home on wheels ... MAN 16.232 Expedition Truck Build

    The bed is important, we decide to use a standard bed size in order to buy mattress and suspension from IKEA. For us is also important to have the necessary space on the bed in order to stay comfortably in a sit position
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    Our new home on wheels ... MAN 16.232 Expedition Truck Build

    We have also to work a lot on the plumbing. We start the project with the intention to have all the redundancy and all the necessary features: 700 L fresh water 200 L Gray water 100 L Black Water Toilet with the choice to switch from cassette (chemical) to Black water tank Black water tank...
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    Our new home on wheels ... MAN 16.232 Expedition Truck Build

    We have started to make the interiors of the truck after some months of work on the external cabin. There is a lot of work to do in order to make the insulation free of thermal bridges. For the interiors our choice was to use marine plywood covered with a good film of melamine. Is simple to...
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    Our new home on wheels ... MAN 16.232 Expedition Truck Build

    Hi, we are trying to update this post soon, thanks for follow our build on Instagram :-)
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    Our new home on wheels ... MAN 16.232 Expedition Truck Build

    Hi Nick! thanks... I think that this modification is done by a request of the Danish Army.
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    Our new home on wheels ... MAN 16.232 Expedition Truck Build

    It's now the time to made a test of the frame torsion. We build a ramp with some flooring wood and we start the ascension... That's the frame from the bottom Here a close picture of the three point linkage system of the military chassis
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    Our new home on wheels ... MAN 16.232 Expedition Truck Build

    Insulating the thermal bridges With the frame made of steel there is a problem with thermal bridges. We solve the problem with an insulation made of Aerogel. To made the insulation we need to fit the Aerogel panels inside a PVC cover. Cutting the PVC tubes is a long work but at the end the...
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    Our new home on wheels ... MAN 16.232 Expedition Truck Build

    Insulating the container frame With the frame finished and painted we start to mount the side panels. The panels are build with Styrofoam and they have 65mm oh thickness. With the help of a team of friends we start to mount the panels... it's an hard job but fortunately the panels are very...
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    Our new home on wheels ... MAN 16.232 Expedition Truck Build

    Hi All, sorry for the delay but in this period I'm really busy with the first work and the second work (the truck build). Following you can find some new photo of he work in progress ... Me at work on the subframe! The container frame under build We build the frame with the standard...
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    Our new home on wheels ... MAN 16.232 Expedition Truck Build

    Hi Enrico, I know that load the motorcycles inside the truck is for sure a waste of space, but with a 8,5 meters of truck I think that having an additional box on the rear could be a problem. I would try to put the motorcycles (without the front wheel) behind the bed....
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    Our new home on wheels ... MAN 16.232 Expedition Truck Build

    Thanks Enrytre, I want to load the bikes inside the truck for safety. When I start the project I was thinking about a removable cell, but after some study my idea was returned to a standard fixed cell.
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    Our new home on wheels ... MAN 16.232 Expedition Truck Build

    Hi Victorian, no I bought it from AIGNER Truck near Landshut :)
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    Our new home on wheels ... MAN 16.232 Expedition Truck Build

    Today is the great day! We are moving home with our new MAN 16.232 (Ex Danish Army) and we are ready to start a new project... We are moving from our Unimog 1300 to that MAN for only ONE Rason: we need more space because we are trying to start our Round The worl trip next year! So now we are...
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    Italian UNIMOG Camper construction

    Hi All! The Unimog is a superb truck and we are really happy of it. We are starting a Round the world trip so we need more space for living. Our project is to live inside the truck for some years. Our unimog box is only 3 meters long, so it's too small. Next month we start the buld of a MAN 4x4...
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    Souther Morocco with an Expedition Truck

    Hi All, we are just finished our last Morocco Expedition. Me and Lucia are two Italians that are driving an amazing self-built Unimog. Here a video that contains some interesting image of the travel :ylsmoke:
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    Italian UNIMOG Camper construction

    Hi all, it's too much time that I don't write here. My Unimog is still on travel now. We are just finished a new travel in the southern Morocco You can find our last video here. Now we are thinking on a new camper construction ....
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